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us. your book reflects that. it has been endorsed by scholars and civil liberties leaders across the board and it has been very, very high praise and rightfully so. what about habeas corpus make you think that it was an important thing for you to spend the last few years of your life on? what about it can help us in our fight for liberty in the midst of war and terror? >> well, during the bush years of the war on terror i was, like many other americans, horrified by a number of practices. the most fundamental liberties, the right of habeas corpus. like many other civil libertarians, i believe that the legal history of habeas corpus would be on our side. that if i just looked into it could, but in her tired silver bullet argument for there were doing. research more in the paper became a book. personally i lot rockier and less clear-cut than that. starting in england which is more important than in my soon to a lot of people and the estates. if the supreme court decision often discussed in
us. your book reflects that. it has been endorsed by scholars and civil liberties leaders across the board and it has been very, very high praise and rightfully so. what about habeas corpus make you think that it was an important thing for you to spend the last few years of your life on? what about it can help us in our fight for liberty in the midst of war and terror? >> well, during the bush years of the war on terror i was, like many other americans, horrified by a number of practices....
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we used a real country, but i stopped using real countries and started to use fictional countries as i found that the students were bogging down. they were not winning the game very well after a few years and i didn't know why. i questioned them and finally came to light. the real countries look at the newspaper and ask our parents would take their suggestions and do what they do. real problems, real world. of course they were solving. so we kept the real problems and kept going. today, the world peace game from his forfeit a five-foot on the floor is a four-foot by four-foot by four-foot glass tower. it towers over most of my fourth graders, nine euros in virginia where i teach these days. this tower emulates our earth. there are four layers. there are 44 by four she said plexiglas stack one above the other to make a space in between each layer horizontally. on each layer we have hundreds of game pieces, mostly from hobby shops and toy stores. i've collect them over the decades. the bottom level is called the undersea level. submarines, undersea mining, coral reefs endangered specie
we used a real country, but i stopped using real countries and started to use fictional countries as i found that the students were bogging down. they were not winning the game very well after a few years and i didn't know why. i questioned them and finally came to light. the real countries look at the newspaper and ask our parents would take their suggestions and do what they do. real problems, real world. of course they were solving. so we kept the real problems and kept going. today, the...
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are being used. there have been several limited studies in this area of the past several decades so i'm pleased today and we'll have the international association of police. we are covering the hope for the past 10 years and this was done with the research center. john is the research individual who is a director and he will be handing this to us. the state association are like a distinguished perception from reality and this includes myths with reliable information that proves otherwise were confirming and proper procedures or practices that need to be addressed. today as evident by your practices to move forward, particularly in regards to media and government bodies. the study will facilitate a more accurate view of these actions for perspective overtime versus focusing on anecdotal incidents. i know there are other areas of concern as mentioned in the book. we will have comments on this. and these initiatives need to be renewed and reviewed and discussed in a public forum with legislators and wha
are being used. there have been several limited studies in this area of the past several decades so i'm pleased today and we'll have the international association of police. we are covering the hope for the past 10 years and this was done with the research center. john is the research individual who is a director and he will be handing this to us. the state association are like a distinguished perception from reality and this includes myths with reliable information that proves otherwise were...
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that is to say everybody wants to use the networking. that, of course, was characteristic of the gold standard from about 1717, i would argue, until 1914 in the first world war. everybody wanted to be in this networking because everybody wanted to make their payments in a currency that was a standard acceptable worldwide in all forms of trade and payments. so that the disadvantage of having one state, eleven states, or twelve state you still have a networking in place. namely the federal reserve note as legal tender which is you -- which everybody is connected and in the habit of making payment at the grocery store or wire transfer for a security purchase, and as a result it's very hard to displace the networking as everyone tried to displace microsoft's networking -- it's very difficult once the standard established. this is a profound eater -- effort in the. sot the leader. we need a congressional action establishing the monetary standard under the unique powers given by the constitution of the united states under article i. and diswie
that is to say everybody wants to use the networking. that, of course, was characteristic of the gold standard from about 1717, i would argue, until 1914 in the first world war. everybody wanted to be in this networking because everybody wanted to make their payments in a currency that was a standard acceptable worldwide in all forms of trade and payments. so that the disadvantage of having one state, eleven states, or twelve state you still have a networking in place. namely the federal...
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recently with the kennedy house is the cbo used? >> it should have been used in two ways. the one way that was used is to be able to help the super committee and set the parameters of what they were going to do. so that director elmendorf testified multiple times before the super committee on the nature of the problem was facing the country and what kind of things would need to happen, but would be a reasonable trajectory for trying to get the deficit down and clearly the cbo staff behind the scenes worked with the super committee answering questions. there's an awful lot of work cbo does that isn't visible but they are providing advice when asked congressional staff committees. what would have happened is if the super committee had been successful is that the cbo would have had to score whatever legislative changes the super committee came up with in order to determine whether they actually met the target set from the super committee. at least $1.2 trillion over ten years in order to prevent the automatic sequestration from taking effect if they had gotten that far which
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she wanted us to stand up. she wanted us to charge the barricades. she wanted us to understand that comprise was good as as long as we comprised up. that is as long as we petitioned ourselves in silos of political belief, we would go wack back ward. continue to be unready in her words, to face the challenges that we as americans owed one another at home and the challenges we, in americans, of the world. and so before i talk a little bit about the book, and the story how she stayed alive to finish it, and why i think it is herman -- her manifesto i would like to thank nancy roosevelt. when you take a book in copyright, and major publisher owns that copyright, it's very hard to get that copyright back. and this book was published it hit the stands approximately five months after eleanor roosevelt died. wasn't around to hock it. she wasn't around to go on "meet the press" or "face the nation" or do one of her tv show "prospect of mankind" to talk about it. none of the major book review editors like "the new york times," or publishers weekly or "reader's
she wanted us to stand up. she wanted us to charge the barricades. she wanted us to understand that comprise was good as as long as we comprised up. that is as long as we petitioned ourselves in silos of political belief, we would go wack back ward. continue to be unready in her words, to face the challenges that we as americans owed one another at home and the challenges we, in americans, of the world. and so before i talk a little bit about the book, and the story how she stayed alive to...
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about what they are doing to us. there was a time, i am quite sure, not that this country ever had a golden age of freedom, it always had severe deviation from its ideal for delivery but there never was a time in the past when americans would have tolerated this kind of treatment and the fact that we are doing it today does not speak well of us at all. >> it is hopeful for some of us that there is beginning to be growing protest and backlash against this. there are new revelations almost daily, came out a couple days ago about the cards being captured, in testimony before congress it was revealed they are in fact capturing everybody's information, not just terrorists, he essentially everybody in any network whatsoever, so the revelations are unfolding, building to critical mass preceding the backlash that will do something about this. 9 independence don independencet organized itself in 80 cities including a facility in utah, it will hold 5 had a bite of data and the context, the entire world wide web is half of a da
about what they are doing to us. there was a time, i am quite sure, not that this country ever had a golden age of freedom, it always had severe deviation from its ideal for delivery but there never was a time in the past when americans would have tolerated this kind of treatment and the fact that we are doing it today does not speak well of us at all. >> it is hopeful for some of us that there is beginning to be growing protest and backlash against this. there are new revelations almost...
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used, whether used, outcomes, the quick use. there have been several limited studies in an area over the past several decades with nothing as far as the national police search study. so i am pleased to announce today here that does ntoa is in the final agreement with the international association of chiefs of police to conduct a national survey in the research project covering the past 10 years for the use of tactical teams. the ntoa will fund the research project conduct to along with the chicago-based national research center. i would like to introduce mr. john berman. johnny cia cpu research standard direct her and he will be handling this endeavor. the ntoa and state associations will distinguish perception from reality, debunking myths were reliable information proves otherwise for confirming a proper procedures or practices that need to be addressed. today is evident by your attendance, many individuals have interest in understanding tactical teams practice is more fully, particularly citizens, and media, organizations and
used, whether used, outcomes, the quick use. there have been several limited studies in an area over the past several decades with nothing as far as the national police search study. so i am pleased to announce today here that does ntoa is in the final agreement with the international association of chiefs of police to conduct a national survey in the research project covering the past 10 years for the use of tactical teams. the ntoa will fund the research project conduct to along with the...
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no fooling us again. i think this time if we don't do what we are lost. >> you go to a lot of conferences and gatherings and one of the most exciting thing to me is a great numbers of young people when i was at that age group now there are a lot of young people involved there very principled and active in and organizing it unique ways using the power of social media and other thing is. in very interested to pursue these ideas and put into action in a principled way. so that gives me a tremendous hope and optimism >> when i was a student interested in these ideas considerably smaller than now eliot that is very encouraging. i think one reason the user often attracted to ideas is they have a long-term outlook. in many cases they know the short-term is not the greatest hope they don't buy as much into the fleeing controversies in thinking in the long term and hopeful in that sense in that is the way i am hopeful in the long run i think eventually something has to give and there are too many internal contradi
no fooling us again. i think this time if we don't do what we are lost. >> you go to a lot of conferences and gatherings and one of the most exciting thing to me is a great numbers of young people when i was at that age group now there are a lot of young people involved there very principled and active in and organizing it unique ways using the power of social media and other thing is. in very interested to pursue these ideas and put into action in a principled way. so that gives me a...
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and he was wonderful to me and to us, and both he and mrs. frankfurter, who became a friend, too, were very, very close to us. c-span: how many children did you and phil graham have? >> guest: we had four. we had--i have four. my oldest is elizabeth weymouth, who is a journalist and writes for the post and on foreign affairs, but other things, too. c-span: known as lally? >> guest: known as lally. and donald, who is chief executive officer of the company. william, called bill, who has an investment partnership in los angeles, but who lives on the vineyard in the summer and is very interested and loves the vineyard and lives next door to me with his children, and i love that. and steven, who is married and lives in new york and is getting a postgraduate degree in--in literature and is in teaching, but he has been in the theater and has produced and--and has an experimental theater going. c-span: you lost a son? >> guest: i lost our first baby, which was tremendously traumatic, who was born full term, but because it was in washington during--at
and he was wonderful to me and to us, and both he and mrs. frankfurter, who became a friend, too, were very, very close to us. c-span: how many children did you and phil graham have? >> guest: we had four. we had--i have four. my oldest is elizabeth weymouth, who is a journalist and writes for the post and on foreign affairs, but other things, too. c-span: known as lally? >> guest: known as lally. and donald, who is chief executive officer of the company. william, called bill, who...
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he decides this amazing thing is hijack a plane and use the capt. as a bargaining chip to liberate angeles davis so i will read your about him in 1972 roger is making his plan on this live without telling cathy kerkow just a few days away from the hijacking. white non dash ready cathy kerkow ready to visit her father writer redoubled the efforts to finalize the edge of the davis plan with each recent skyjacking taking notes of what works and what didn't. there is no shortage of intriguing case studies including a pair that place of the same day a young north dakota and recently drafted to havana he did so with the note he has heavy armed members of the imperialists movement to make sure the skies would not be safe again. an almost exact same moment a hijacked plane touched down in cuba with a 49 year-old bailed out of the eastern airlines boeing 727 as it flew into honduras and carry $303,000 in ransom paid by the airlines as a stop in washington d.c.. he finished into the jungle there was a rumor you donate money to the marxist insurgents his plan
he decides this amazing thing is hijack a plane and use the capt. as a bargaining chip to liberate angeles davis so i will read your about him in 1972 roger is making his plan on this live without telling cathy kerkow just a few days away from the hijacking. white non dash ready cathy kerkow ready to visit her father writer redoubled the efforts to finalize the edge of the davis plan with each recent skyjacking taking notes of what works and what didn't. there is no shortage of intriguing case...
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but we use -- this is kennedy's point. we used to take challenges. god, we went to the moon. and when kennedy said, we're going to the moon, they did not know how there are going to the moon. and so we asked, why go to the moon? he gave the most famous answer which cribs and still today. because it is hard. because it will organize the best and gas. who talks like that now? but you know, we don't even take on challenges. what if the president of the united states said, it is our costa and poverty and we meet, not to give a speech and then never say it again, but actually mean it with money behind it, with resources, commitment, that would galvanize young people around this country in a minute flat, just like that people are hungry for meaning. but we don't have it. nobody believes in it. and so the answer on the peace corps is it does wonderful things abroad, but even more importantly, it does wonderful things in the minds of american young people. and it has since 1961. .. >> thank you so much. [inaudible conversations] >> for more information visit the
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tweet us your feedback. twitter.com/booktv. >> up next on book tv, erick stackelbeck talks about the history of the muslim brotherhood and the influence it deals in egypt and across the middle east today. he argues that even though morsi , a leading member of the muslim brotherhood was recently ousted to my brother is still a dangerous group not to be taken lightly. about an hour and 15 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> i think really the best thing about my life is that i have wonderful friends and many of them are here. one of them is this brilliant, brilliant individual, and i don't mean that in the british sense, but the american sense. erick stackelbeck has written a groundbreaking book on the muslim brotherhood. it's called "the brotherhood: america's next great enemy." i am a slow reader, but i went through read in one afternoon because i could not put it down. it is such a page turner. i think number one on amazon in terms of books about the middle east. it is reading to show how this organizatio
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in fact, they would use them to study. roger holder told me about studying other hijackings to see what of the hijackers had done that was wrong. the amazing phenomena of these so-called pair of jacks, people who would parachute out the first the first guy to do it like really messed up the ended up like getting head in -- getting hit in head with a fire expert in d. b. cooper who jumped out and to my mind, and died on the way down. and yet the next guy who jumps out, and he makes it to the ground but he made one mistake but he wore cowboy boots. and so he sprained his ankle upon landing and find them like in a week you a mobile. the next guy to do it was better boots. and like they improve and improve and improve and become like one of each other. this person got 5000 i'm kind of get 502000. so there was no question that the media influenced, the virus what i call this, traveled through the media reports. there was a lot of talk about limiting media access to hijackings. this was kind of like the early heyday of the 6:00
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tweet us @booktv. post it on our facebook page or send us an e-mail at c-span.org. >>> should be a flow of communication available to everyone in the country. so it's just like the electricity. we turn on lights, we don't even think about it. it's an input in to everything we do as a country. communication schowb the same thing. because we've ban little confused. there's a lot of fog around the issue. people have a sense that internet access a luxury. what is interesting that electricity was treated as a luxury too. in the early 20th century water everybody needs and slct for the rich. it took decades to change the perception from one thing to another. we're in the middle point right now that internet access is viewed as something slightly magical or expensive. but talk to someone trying to run a business from his home. for him internet access is just like -- he can't even get going without having that reasonable price connection. now there's no option for it. >> how america's economic future is being
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tweet us@booktv. post it on our facebook page, or send us an e-mail at @booktv@c-span.org. >>> the last few years, the left decided that the political debate is worthless. they're not going debate politics. .. live the first sunday of every month at noon eastern on book tv on c-span2. >> now we return to afterwards with martin clancy in tim o'brien. murder at the supreme court. >> i wanted to take a moment to get to the real meat of the book and talk about some of the cases that released to that to you both speak to one of the truly landmark cases of anyone who practices death penalty law and a lot of people that don't are familiar with the case of gravers is georgia. the supreme court threw out the death penalty in 1972 finding was implemented in an arbitrary and capricious manner and that was like getting struck by lightning. the states rewrote the death penalty laws. another case came up in 1976 called greg versus georgia where they had the opportunity to see what the states had done, let georgia h
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they looked at the figures and they they were going to overtake us. i made the point to a wonderful column pointing this out, and there's a moment here, a forgotten moment of alarm and anxiety when they look like the winners. let's try to get back in the heads of people who thought that way then because history just doesn't go on by us answering questions, but by us going -- by asking complete news of the questions and forgetting past ones meaning the past is more mysterious than it looks, to get inside the mind set, even in the path of 40 # years ago is often to enter another world. it is science fiction, but i'm landing on the planet ussr in 1960 and behaving as if that is a set of aliens who need the tools of science fiction to explain them. >> host: previous guest on the series was robert mccrumb of the observer saying writers in britain can't be just writers, they have to be writers and something else. do you have a day job? >> guest: i do. i'm a writer and a teacher of writing. i teach e equivalent of a course, but halftime, tuesday and wednesda
they looked at the figures and they they were going to overtake us. i made the point to a wonderful column pointing this out, and there's a moment here, a forgotten moment of alarm and anxiety when they look like the winners. let's try to get back in the heads of people who thought that way then because history just doesn't go on by us answering questions, but by us going -- by asking complete news of the questions and forgetting past ones meaning the past is more mysterious than it looks, to...
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i think both of us having grown up catholic i think the kennedys have it particular resonance for us but i wanted to start off an ask you view our supreme court and presidential scholar. how did you get interested in rose? is going up and interest in the kennedy family since i was a little tyke. when i was four years old my mother took him my brothers to downtown louisville kentucky. she piled a sinner 56 chevrolet and drove us downtown to the courthouse. she was completely drawn to this new candidate on the scene in the presidential race, senator john f. kennedy. >> host: do you think it was because she was catholic? >> guest: i have to think that was a major part of it in addition to which he was about. so see with that new generation to which the torch was being passed that i point out that while she loves history and politics she wasn't that active in grassroots politics and she didn't particularly like driving downtown on the very busy streets. i know it was his charisma and probably the policies and let's face it is handsome looks. >> host: he was a pretty good-looking guy. >>
i think both of us having grown up catholic i think the kennedys have it particular resonance for us but i wanted to start off an ask you view our supreme court and presidential scholar. how did you get interested in rose? is going up and interest in the kennedy family since i was a little tyke. when i was four years old my mother took him my brothers to downtown louisville kentucky. she piled a sinner 56 chevrolet and drove us downtown to the courthouse. she was completely drawn to this new...
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this book is the world with us. so what happens in the world in which we have so many people competing for precious resources, how is that going to work. how is it would work in a personally, how will that work, how can the plant hold us? the excerpt we have a set in israel and look at those issues through the lens of israeli towns and palestinian families. we like a big families and they have different reasons for having big families and their competing for water because israel is a desert. so he is traveled around world i think he went to 20 different countries and talked to people and found out how these issues play out in all kinds of different places. >> valerie plame has a fiction book coming out spent just turned into a thriller writer. she has a co-author. this is the first of a series of needless to say she brings to bear her life experience. but it is free from gaining surveyed by the people she used to work for because it's all in fictional context. >> one of the book is james swanson's, under the young a
this book is the world with us. so what happens in the world in which we have so many people competing for precious resources, how is that going to work. how is it would work in a personally, how will that work, how can the plant hold us? the excerpt we have a set in israel and look at those issues through the lens of israeli towns and palestinian families. we like a big families and they have different reasons for having big families and their competing for water because israel is a desert. so...
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there were defeating us until the french came in and joined us in the french bailed us out and enabled us to win the revolution. that's a story most people really don't know. of course we returned the favor from time to the french after that which is a story most of us do know. the point is when i began to hear from audiences and people saying to me i didn't know that, that's fun. i'm thinking what story don't you know? how about world war i and? most americans get their history from hollywood which is a sad statement to make that if you think about world war ii versus world war i they are making them today. how many movies have been made about world war ii? hundreds and hundreds and i can count on one hand the good movies made about world war i. all quiet on the western front the original gallipoli and that's about it. most people just don't know about the lafayette or the red baron. the red baron by the way is not just a cartoon character as someone may wonder. he is a marvelous character and he is the german voice in that story. the marines at al lowood's. i'll bet you don't know th
there were defeating us until the french came in and joined us in the french bailed us out and enabled us to win the revolution. that's a story most people really don't know. of course we returned the favor from time to the french after that which is a story most of us do know. the point is when i began to hear from audiences and people saying to me i didn't know that, that's fun. i'm thinking what story don't you know? how about world war i and? most americans get their history from hollywood...
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other--many other names were used for them. c-span: you write in your book that as soon as he was born, he was handed off to somebody else to raise him? >> guest: he--yes, he--he has what to us would seem a sort of bizarre upbringing. he's reared apart from his parents in a detached palace. but this doesn't mean that this little boy is denied the--the warmth of concerned parents. his father and mother care for him very much, but the--from an early age, it is is true, he's taken and entrusted to an admiral to be given a modern type of rearing, and that was considered--in those days, the military was at the forefront of modernization, and the young hirohito was to be the first, very first emperor reared and educated under the modern imperial system, because for hundreds of years, for--emperors had been removed from politics and they were encouraged to study poetry, write poetry, but to take no interest in political affairs. now, hirohito's great-grandfather was an exception, and meiji, of course was the exception, but neither of
other--many other names were used for them. c-span: you write in your book that as soon as he was born, he was handed off to somebody else to raise him? >> guest: he--yes, he--he has what to us would seem a sort of bizarre upbringing. he's reared apart from his parents in a detached palace. but this doesn't mean that this little boy is denied the--the warmth of concerned parents. his father and mother care for him very much, but the--from an early age, it is is true, he's taken and...
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i do mostly use archives and try to use mostly contemporary archives. to say the least there are at love books written. amazon with something like 60,000 hard cover tights. some were really good, needless to say. i try to come through that and be diligent and see what others have written. >> host: what was your dad stationed? >> guest: he got to europe at the end of the war. he enlisted in '43 went officer candidate school and a second lieutenant. he was in the con stab which was an interesting unit formed as if ended. the helmet had a yellow band. their job was to keep in order bar very -- had been utterly destroyed seven million dead german. there's no food or power. there's no running water. it's horrible. it's nation of 80 million people that have been utterly smashed. and so he was there for a year, came back went to college. penn state then went back to the army. he liked it enough he made it a career, subsequently he was a career army officer. so, you know, he had an interesting role of europe right at the end. >> host: where do you grow up? >> g
i do mostly use archives and try to use mostly contemporary archives. to say the least there are at love books written. amazon with something like 60,000 hard cover tights. some were really good, needless to say. i try to come through that and be diligent and see what others have written. >> host: what was your dad stationed? >> guest: he got to europe at the end of the war. he enlisted in '43 went officer candidate school and a second lieutenant. he was in the con stab which was an...
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us and lose the big picture. you know, i think when we talk to typical americans and focus groups, there's often concern about agricultural subsidies or welfare or the space program or the national endowments and, if you took all of those things out of the budget, it would be less than 5% of the budget. so, you know, while i think as citizens we absolutely have a right to know where the money is going and we should be, you know, should get more penny-pinchers in washington because i think there is a sense in washington being rather cavalier with the money. but, we also need to be honest with ourselves and start looking at social security, medicare, the defense budget, all the money we spend on interest and start thinking about how we'll change our ways. >> host: back to the pop quiz in your book, scott bittle up in new york, number 4 asks true or false foreign aid is one of the top ten expenses in the federal budget. true or false? >> guest: it's false. it's really about one percent of the budget, less than one p
us and lose the big picture. you know, i think when we talk to typical americans and focus groups, there's often concern about agricultural subsidies or welfare or the space program or the national endowments and, if you took all of those things out of the budget, it would be less than 5% of the budget. so, you know, while i think as citizens we absolutely have a right to know where the money is going and we should be, you know, should get more penny-pinchers in washington because i think there...
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it has gotten us into hot water right now. why every american is watching now listening right now needs to know about the muslim brotherhood. without the birth of them in egypt there would be no war on terror right deal. without them there would have been no 9/11. that may shock some people a and i say it without hesitation in reservation. this is the granddaddy of them all with modern islamic terrorist groups. they spawned al qaeda they created a loss. it is no coincidence the men behind a 11 osama bin on in solitary, before they joined al qaeda guess which group they belong to? the muslim brotherhood. leeson gentleman i am here to tell you it is the gateway drug to islamic terrorism and jihad if you want to understand and they have going on in the world right now? why we are up against the war with the existential struggle of the judeo-christian civilization and? items saying that in the capital and they don't like to hear that but that is what is going on. >> guest: to understand what we're up against you have to understand
it has gotten us into hot water right now. why every american is watching now listening right now needs to know about the muslim brotherhood. without the birth of them in egypt there would be no war on terror right deal. without them there would have been no 9/11. that may shock some people a and i say it without hesitation in reservation. this is the granddaddy of them all with modern islamic terrorist groups. they spawned al qaeda they created a loss. it is no coincidence the men behind a 11...